There are plenty of times when a companies stock is way over or under valued, and it wouldn't be crazy to think with the high that Take Two is on, that they very well may be over valued at this point in time. Meaning if a buyout occurred, they probably wouldn't get all that much more for the company than what it's valued at now.

Depending on how the companies stock is divided, it's quite possible the individuals running the company may have very little control over whether or not they can stop the company from being purchased. There are literally hostile takeovers at times when one company buys up the overwhelming majority of shares of another and that's that.

This may or may not be the case, but I doubt Sony would take over Take Two if they didn't think it was a good idea to sell, yet anything is possible. I'd still guess it's unlikely but there are certainly good reasons why it would be a worthy purchase for SNY. Depends on what PS has planned for the future.

Its not rocket science. If your company makes profits, and you don't have to share the profits with anyone than why the hell would you want to be brought out so the profits get divided? If Sony brought Take-Two than they will require a % of the profits. Take-Two make all the money they need and I highly doubt they need Sony or another company to help make them more, if anything they will make less under an umbrella. 

Xbox and Switch are platforms that Take-Two can make a fortune on which is why Take-Two are better being on there own because the potential market share they can gain is a lot bigger than being stuck on 1 platform. That's why they are mentioned here. You want to maximise your profits, than you need to see the industry as a whole not just tunnel vision. 

We are talking about a brand that makes there billions due to multiplatform freedom. So what part don't you think I understand? 

MS don't throw there money away unless they see potential fast gain return. Minecraft was considered one of there biggest purchases in there gaming division, the difference is Minecraft is like the 3rd best selling game ever made and continues to sell. Its a purchase with a very good return and MS keep it multiplat for that very reason. Sony wont buy Take-Two and keep there games multiplat which means its going to take a lot longer for Sony to make there money back especially when Rockstar make a game every 5 years.

Its just not a finically good business decision for a company like Sony, they aren't as big as many make them out to be. $10b is a lot of money and even though they have other options to purchase them, they need to hold onto there options as the industry is pushing into a direction where they have other services that need attending, not throw half of it away for 1 brand that already makes Sony money without the need of spending billions on them.

Typically for a new gen ariving these rumors pass through those checks. :p

Yes I know it. My company when bought had like a 20% bonus on the share or less when they decided the price. When it gone for the stockholders to decide because the rumor spread out and stock evaluated the bonus was like 5%. They sold anyway because they expected the stock to fall in the short and middle term because the company had evaluated almost 100% in 2 years.

I'm talking more about bid war (on a deal that was secret before leak), sharing profits (when you are already making your profit and some on the sale) and other stuff.

And yes I agree it's unlikely to happen.

Untill it is approved by companies they would deny anyway.

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What an ironic 1-2 combo of posts.

Why is this still a thing? The rumor was DEBUNKED! Glad it's not happening anyway. Like others have said, it's best to keep this multiplat. Especially a developer/publisher of their caliber who already have strong followings on all platforms.

I was just using your point to elaborate for those who didn't realize public companies don't exactly operate in the same way as a private company and that the stock market isn't the perfect indicator of a public companies overall position. I could've been more clear on that in retrospect.

Nvidia just bought out Mellanox who is at an all time 12 year high. It's a cash deal and Nvidia has about $7.5 bil in cash and is paying $7.0 bil in cash to acquire them. Nvidia is purchasing them for $125 per share when the stock was around $110 when rumors came out that Nvidia may outbid Intel. Nvidia's market cap is $100 bil, but in a cash deal that doesn't mean a whole lot, and Mellanox has a $6.5 bil market cap.

SNY has $25 bil in cash. SNY market cap is $60 bil and Take Two market cap is $10 bil. Take Two stock was floating around $90 per share before the SNY rumors, and is now closer to $95 per share. Take Two is down from the all time high of $140 per share over the past couple of years, but is still on an overall 20+ year high. SNY should be able to buy Take Two if the deal can be made for anywhere between $11 and $15 bil. It would leave SNY with at least $10 bil in the bank still.

Nvidia is worth way more than SNY but doesn't have near the cash sitting around. Mellanox is mostly being bought for it's tech know how and IP so Nvidia can make a better product and more money in the future, and their net income over the last couple of years isn't that much different than Take Two. Take Two actually made slightly more then Mellanox. Intel even has $11.5 bil in cash and lost the bid to Nvidia.

Part of why Nvidia is probably doing this, is because Intel is coming out with what hopefully will be somewhat competitive GPU's in the next couple of years, and AMD is a year or two away from their redesigned next gen GPU architecture finally. For the graphics sector, it's on the verge of 'next gen' you could say, and so Nvidia is doing what they feel necessary to retain their stranglehold on the market, as well as make headway into new markets. This fits quite well with why SNY may want to try and acquire a company like Take Two, since they've been the market leader this gen, making by far the most money, much like Nvidia has, and they can expand into new markets, while strengthening their existing.

Whether or not the purchase makes sense based on what PS and SNY want to do with the business, and whether Take Two is something they can actually acquire aside from money, the deal shouldn't be much of a problem when it comes to financials. The deciding factor would mostly be Take Two and their ability to sell or resist and how much they feel is a reasonable sale price.

As for making Take Two titles exclusive, while it would be a slap in the face to the industry, so were the studios they bought in the past, as well as the studio's more recently purchased by MS. SNY initially acquired those studios to be able to build their brand to what it is today, and MS is purchasing theirs because they realize what it has done for SNY and that if they don't, they may not be around for long to compete directly with SNY. Just because MS has put themselves on a more even playing field in terms of first party titles, doesn't mean PS is going to just sit there and watch. The fact that PS has had an advantage in terms of first party is part of what has made them the market leader, so it only makes sense to try and hold onto that position. While they could buy many more smaller studios like MS did, buying Take Two takes care of everything and more, all in one easy shot, and while MS pulls their hair out trying to manage and build out their new studios, PS can mostly sit back and let Take Two do their thing, exclusive or not.

While this probably sounds like I think it's going to happen, I don't actually, mostly based on SNY building out their own established studios already, working so closely with Kojima, etc, but I can't deny the possibility that PS will go big like they usually do next gen, but in terms of software this time around and not so much hardware.

Please explain to me what irony have in saying the business isn't a very soundy decision, as much as MS putting 2.5B in a game that didn't had assured return of that in profit.

I understood your intention, at least I think so, that is why I gave even more information that corroborated your point.

Also to remember is that if Sony intended to do an "agressive" takeover on the stock of TakeDown they likely could as well (even less probable than an amicable purchase with premium on the shares).

So all in all I do agree that if shareholders don't think in the midterm the shares would get anywhere near what Sony is offering I don't see much reason for they to refuse to sell.

What could hold them back is the potential damaging of how the brand is percieved by consumers,people do not like when company's buy exclusives like this and in the long run it could lead to a loss when those same exclusives are not handled well enough and with a big investment there might be a possible pressure to put games out more quickly which might result into lesser quality.

It's a risk.